Wet Room Conversion in Hanley
Full bathroom installations, project-managed by one local team.
A wet room is a bathroom with no line between shower and floor — one waterproofed surface, one drain, no tray, no screen. In a Hanley property it usually goes into a smaller room where a shower-cubicle-plus-bath layout has always felt cramped.
We form the floor with pre-fall boards, tank the entire room with a sheet membrane, run the drain to a proper gravity waste, and finish in R11 tile. No corners cut on the waterproofing — the tanking is what stops a leak eating the ceiling below.
Ask ten Hanley households what they want from bathroom fitting and you get ten different briefs, so we start by listening.
Our wet room conversion process in Hanley
We work through it in this order, and you'll know what's happening each day:
- 1Snagging walk-through, sealing and full clean down before handover (planned per Hanley room).
- 2Day 2 for a Hanley job — free home survey to measure, photograph and talk through your options.
- 33. Second-fix of sanitaryware, brassware and shower screens, agreed with you before we start in Hanley.
- 4Stage 4 on site at Hanley: wall and floor tiling by hand, including diamond-cut details.
- Aqua-boarded walls in wet zones rated to BBA standard, used in Hanley installs.
- Anti-slip vinyl or LVT click flooring on resilient sub-base, used in Hanley installs.
Wet Room Conversion FAQs — Hanley
- Can any Hanley room become a wet room?
- Most can — timber floors need decoupling and often joist strengthening, concrete slabs are ideal. We survey the floor before quoting on any Hanley conversion.
- Is a screen ever fitted?
- Optional — a fixed glass panel keeps spray off the WC on many Hanley layouts. Full open wet rooms without a panel work best in rooms over 3m long.
- How long does a wet room conversion take?
- 10–14 working days end to end: strip, form, tank (with cure time), tile, second-fix. Slower than a bathroom refit because tanking has to cure properly.
- How much does a wet room cost in Hanley?
- £7,500–£13,500 typically for a full conversion including formed floor, tanking, linear drain, tile, WC and vanity. Fixed after survey.
- How quickly can you start a job in Hanley?
- Lead time is usually two to five weeks from a confirmed quote, depending on the spec and our current schedule across the Staffordshire side.
- How long does a full bathroom in Hanley typically take?
- A standard family bathroom in Hanley is usually 7 – 12 working days from strip-out to handover, depending on tiling area and structural changes.
About Hanley
Locally, Hanley is part of Stoke-on-Trent City Council's area within Staffordshire, covering postcodes ST1. Hanley is the city centre — apartments above shops, conversions of former pottery buildings, plus tight rows of terraces in Shelton and Northwood. Quick to reach off A500 and A53 — useful when we're surveying several jobs in a morning.
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What we build into every {town} wet room
What we commit to on every wet room conversion job in Hanley:
- Sheet-membrane tanking with taped joints on every wet room (standard on every Hanley wet room conversion install).
- Pre-fall boards used, no mortar-only falls (standard on every Hanley wet room conversion install).
- Sectors served include landlords, lettings agents and private homeowners — proven across Hanley.
- Standard on Hanley work: reviewed and recommended on local community boards.
- Standard on Hanley work: time-served plumbers and tilers on every job.
Where {town} wet rooms fail
Homeowners converting a bathroom into a fully tanked wet room in Hanley hit a recurring set of issues with wet room conversion:
Wet rooms 'tanked' with paint-only systems and no primer — flagged regularly on Hanley jobs.
Trays hidden under tile instead of a properly formed floor — flagged regularly on Hanley jobs.
Linear drains sunk with mortar 'falls' instead of pre-fall boards — flagged regularly on Hanley jobs.
Worth checking in your Hanley bathroom: old cast-iron waste runs that throttle drainage on a new shower.
Original lath-and-plaster walls that flex under modern tile weight, particularly in Hanley properties of this age.
Convert your Hanley bathroom to a wet room
Free survey, formed floor, full membrane tanking. Call 01782 901390.
- Free home survey and fixed-price quote
- Written workmanship guarantee on every fit
- Trusted across Staffordshire for over a decade
Wet room conversions across Hanley — formed, fully tanked, linear-drained and finished R11.